Rates for United States Government messages of 20 words or less, counting address, body words, and signature-Continued.

Rates for United States Government messages of 20 words or less, counting address, body words, and signature-Continued.

Rates for United States Government messages of 20 words or less, counting address, body

words, and signature-Continued.

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Rates for United States Government messages of 20 words or less, counting address, body words, and signature-Continued.

97. In a prepaid message the undermentioned words will be counted and charged for, viz:

The address and signature.

All words in an extra date.

In the check the words "Deliver and report charges," "Collect delivery charges," "Report delivery," and "Repeat back."

In collect messages the word "Collect" in the check will be counted but will not be charged for.

98. When a message bears two or more addresses and delivery is to be made to each address, it will be charged for as two or more messages, as the case may be. A message addressed, for example, to "W. Brown, 197 Broadway, and B. Wells, 60 Exchange Place, N. Y.," or a message addressed, for example, to "W. Brown and B. Wells, 197 Broadway," will in each case be charged for as two messages. A message addressed to "J. B. Jackson and S. B. Smith, Senate Chamber, Washington, D. C.," will be charged for as two messages. The additional addresses will not be considered as extra words.

In counting a message, dictionary words, initial letters, surnames of persons, names of cities, towns, villages, States, or Territories, or names of the Canadian Provinces, will be counted and charged for each as one word. The abbreviations for the names of cities, towns, villages, States, Territories, and Provinces will be counted and charged for the same as if written in full. In names of countries or counties all the words will be counted and charged for.

99. Abbreviations of weights and measures in common use will be counted each as a word.

100. To prevent liability to error and reduce cost, numbers and amounts should be written in words.

101. In ordinal numbers the affixes st, d, nd, rd, and th will each be counted as one word.

102. Figures, decimal points and bars of division, and letters (except the pronounceable groups covered by the following paragraph) will be counted, each separately, as one word.

103. All pronounceable groups of letters, when such groups are not dictionary words or combinations of dictionary words, will be counted at the rate of five letters or fractions of five letters to a word. When such groups are made up of combinations of dictionary words, each dictionary word so used will be counted as one word.

104. The following example will illustrate the application of these rules: